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Recipe for Acras de Morue by Dawn's Recipes

We’ve outlined all the ingredients and directions for you to make the perfect Acras de Morue. It should take you about 4 hr 30 min to make this recipe. The Acras de Morue recipe should make enough food for 6 servings.

You can add your own personal twist to this Acras de Morue recipe, depending on your culture or family tradition. Don’t be scared to add other ingredients once you’ve gotten comfortable with the recipe! Please see below for a list of potential cookware items that might be necessary for this Acras de Morue recipe.

Ingredients for Acras de Morue

  • 1 cup flour
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 pound salted codfish, flaked
  • 1 sprig fresh thyme
  • 2 sprigs flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 scallion, including green top
  • 2 chives
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1/2 Scotch Bonnet chile
  • Corn oil, for frying (2 inches)

Directions for Acras de Morue

  1. For the batter, mix the flour and the seasoning together in a medium-size bowl. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and break the eggs into the well 1 at a time while beating the mixture has become a thick, uniform paste.
  2. Cover the bowl with a dampened cloth and allow it to rest for 1 to 4 hours. For the fish, place the flaked codfish, thyme, parsley, scallion, chives, allspice, and chile in the bowl of a food processor and grind them together into a thick paste. Fold this paste into the acras batter.
  3. Meanwhile, heat 2 inches of corn oil to 350 to 375 degrees F in a heavy cast-iron pot or deep fryer. Drop the acras into it by the teaspoonful. Fry until they are light brown, turning once. When done, remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.

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  • Saucepan
  • Stockpot
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  • Wooden Spoon

Categories in this Recipe

  • Cast Iron Skillet
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Chef Dawn
Chef Dawn

Chef Dawn lives and breathes food, always seeking new ingredients to whip up super simple recipes that are big on bold flavor. Being half French, she tends to treat food as a source of pleasure rather than just fuel for our bodies.

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Chef Dawn

Chef Dawn lives and breathes food, always seeking new ingredients to whip up super simple recipes that are big on bold flavor. Being half French, she tends to treat food as a source of pleasure rather than just fuel for our bodies Read Full Chef Bio Here .

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